Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality?

by Gillian Pascall and Sirin Sung

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia; Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall 2. Work-family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?; Sirin Sung 3. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime; Sook-Yeon Won 4. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan; Jessie Wu 5. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349326828
• ISBN13: 9781349326822
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"